List of fiction set in Shanghai

This is a list of novels set in Shanghai, China.

This literature-related list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2021)

• The Blue Lotus by Hergé
• Chang Kai and the House of Hong by Robert de Vries
• A Circle Has No End by Tony Henderson
• China frisst Menschen by Richard Huelsenbeek (in German)
• China Rich Girlfriend by Kevin Kwan
• The Concubine of Shanghai by Hong Ying
• The Corps Book One by W.E.B. Griffin
• Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong
• The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
• Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
• Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard
• Five Star Billionnaire by Tash Aw
• Fist of the Blue Sky, by Tetsuo Hara, Buronson
• The House of Memory - A Novel of Shanghai by Nicholas R. Clifford
• The Immortals: a Novel of Shanghai by Natasha Peters
• El judío de Shanghai by Emilio Calderón
• Kaufherr von Shanghai by Norbert Jacques (in German)
• Love and Other Moods by Crystal Z. Lee
• A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong^[1]
• Love in a Fallen City, a collection of short-stories by Eileen Chang, Karen S. Kingsbury translator
• Man's Fate by Andre Malraux
• The Master of Rain by Tom Bradby
• Midnight by Mao Dun
• The Painter of Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein
• The Patriot by Pearl S. Buck
• Schanghai by Sergei Alymow (in German)
• Schüsse in Schanghai by Alfred Schirokauer (in German)
• Shanghai by Christopher New
• Shanghai by William Leonard Marshall
• Shanghai: a novel by Yokomitsu Riichi (translated with a postscript by Dennis Washburn)
• Shanghai Baby: A Novel by Wei Hui
• Shanghai Dancing by Brian Castro
• These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
• The Shanghai Factor by Charles McCarry
• Shanghai Foxtrot by Mu Shiying (translated by Sean Macdonald)
• Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
• Shanghai hotel by Vicki Baum
• Shanghai Kiss by Kern Konwiser and David Ren
• Shanghai Scarlet, a historical novel 1920s – 1940s by Margaret Blair
• Shanghai Tango by William Overgard
• Shanghai 66 by Jon Clay
• Shibumi by Trevanian
• Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport
• The Shanghai Bund Murders by Frabcus Van Wyck Mason^[2]
• The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing (translated by Eileen Chang)
• The Song of Everlasting Sorrow by Wang Anyi
• That Summer in ShanghaI by Bob de Vries
• When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
• White Shanghai. A Novel of the Roaring Twenties in China by Elvira Baryakina

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